HC Deb 15 May 1973 vol 856 cc1446-8

Lords Amendment: No. 35, in page 25, line 21, leave out coming into operation of the compulsory purchase order

and insert: date on which the acquiring authority were authorised to acquire that interest".

Mr. Graham Page

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this amendment we will take the Lords Amendments Nos. 36 and 48.

Mr. Page

It is not evident on the face of the amendments what they are about. The amendments are necessary to include within the scope of the clause persons displaced by an authority possessing compulsory purchase powers by virtue of a private Act which does not involve the making of a specific compulsory purchase order.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments made

Lords Amendment: No. 37, in page 26, line 20, at end insert "and 'redevelopment' includes a change of use".

Mr. Graham Page

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this amendment we will take Lords Amendments Nos. 58, 60, 63 and 72.

Mr. Page

This amendment and the others in this group provide that where a person is displaced from his home in consequence of the change of use of a building after it has been acquired by an authority possessing compulsory purchase powers, he has the same entitlement to a home loss payment as a person displaced in consequence of redevelopment—for example, when an authority acquires a dwelling and changes its use to, say, an office, thereby displacing its occupier.

I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Park (Mr. Mulley) for drawing attention to this matter in the earlier stages of the Bill. I am glad that we have been able to make provision for it.

Question put and agreed to.

Lords Amendment: No. 38, in page 26, line 20, at end insert: ( ) Where an interest in a dwelling is vested in trustees (other than a sole tenant for life within the meaning of the Settled Land Act 1925) and a person beneficially entitled (whether directly or derivatively) under the trusts is entitled or permitted by reason of his interest to occupy the dwelling, he shall be treated for the purposes of this section as occupying it by virtue of an interest in the dwelling. In the application of this subsection to Scotland the words "(other than a sole tenant for life within the meaning of the Settled Land Act 1925") shall be omitted.

Mr. Graham Page

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this amendment we will take the following Lords Amendments Nos. 39, 40, 41, 42, and 45.

Mr. Page

Clause 27(4)(a) applies the right, subject to certain qualifying conditions, to a home loss payment on a person having "any interest in the dwelling" from which he is displaced. It is not uncommon for a residential property to be held subject to a trust for sale and a person beneficially entitled under the trust to be entitled or permitted to occupy the dwelling. For the avoidance of doubt whether such a person is entitled to a home loss payment, the amendment provides that "interest in the dwelling" includes interest in a dwelling subject to a trust for sale.

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords Amendments agreed to.

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